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The Woman Beside the Painter: I Am You by Victoria Redel - Historical Novel Society
BY WILLIAMAYE JONES History remembers the names of great artists, while the lives around them fade into the margins. Studios, apprentices, assistants, and the quiet labor that supports artistic creation rarely survive in historical records. Victoria Redel’s novel I Am You (Firefinch, March 2026) enters precisely that space, imagining the life of Gerta Pieters, assistant […]